And Jennie Goloboy and Catherine Lundoff are teaching “To Market, To Market” at the Loft Literary Center on 2/28! Get thoughts and tips from a prominent literary agent and an award-winning small press publisher on what makes a manuscript “marketable.” loft.org/classes/mark...

#Booksky LAST day for this sale and to get entered in this prize drawing!

I am donating to this and I would very much like it if others who can donate would do the same. It's not OK that only $6500 has been collected so far. Thank you. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

I spoke with María Corina Machado today. I affirmed Canada’s support for a peaceful, Venezuelan-led transition of power — one that respects the democratic will of the Venezuelan people.

Cats give the best advice

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani will execute his radical socialist plan by sending city residents to collective farms. Katy Perry will announce she has returned to space, not via rocketry, but on the wings of love. And other predictions. @steveburgess53.bsky.social advises. #canpoli #uspoli

#Booksky This sale ends on 1/1!

#Booksky The ever delightful and insightful @madameaskew.bsky.social includes shoutouts for our titles THE COMPLETE ASTREIANT by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett and SILVER MOON by Catherine Lundoff in her annual book recommendation list! 🤩🤩🤩

#Booksky BIG thank you shoutout to everyone shopping from our website this month! January bills are exciting and Amazon is fleecing us like whoa on THE COMPLETE ASTREIANT so buying direct from us or at Smashwords, etc. is great for us. 💖https://queenofswordspress.com/product/complete-astreiant/

If you wanted to see the Inside CECOT segment from 60 Minutes, it aired in Canada 🇨🇦 Thank you, Canada, for sharing! 💚

Burble's home now. I'll 3d print an urn for her this week. #lastofthethreeamigos

#Booksky Like book sales? Our books are on sale at Smashwords right now! Stock up on gay gaslamp murder mysteries, dapper lesbian capybara pirates, sapphic urban fantasy and more! www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

#Booksky Oooh, congratulations Dee Holloway @deeholloway.bsky.social! Good job! (And if you’d to read some of Dee’s work, their terrific Southern Gothic sapphic novella LITTLE NOTHING is on sale at Smashwords right now!)

I'm sad to report Sheriff Burble T. Burble has headed off to ineptly chase miscreants on the other side of the bridge. Miss Be and Spudly will show you the ropes. You were one of a kind Burb, I'll miss you so very much 💔 #rainbowbridge #lastofthethreeamigos

Same as everything he touches, turns to shit.

Good day today! Big shoutout to all the folks shopping with us this year! We really appreciate it! Your book purchases help support our writers and cover artists, as well as paying event fees for events like Pride and book festivals and more! 💖💖💖

I keep posting stuff like this and Carney supporters keep blocking me.

Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.

#Booksky We published 2 novels and are about to publish a series omnibus this year and they’re all pretty great! More reviews would be lovely, as would more preorders for THE COMPLETE ASTREIANT (coming out 12/15!). Get your copies today or request them at your local library! queenofswordspress.com

Go get your heart broken by Premee RIGHT NOW and then THANK HER FOR IT.

Anyway is this the story I had published this year that made the most people claim to have leaked their precious vital essences out of their eyes? MAYBE. Am I thinking about the end of the world a lot? (A lot a lot a lot?) YES. psychopomp.com/everyone-kee...

Well, 1 day of retirement down, hopefully years and years more to go.

The alt text is the icing on the cake 🧁

STARGATE IS COMING BACK #Stargate @gateworld.net youtu.be/e82uV9sBt4I?...

I knew that this day was coming. The UCP had been warning for months that they were going to take away the rights of transgender people (not just children but adults too). I thought I was prepared. But I am still very angry that it has happened.

These are the folks I adopted Horrible Babby Kitten from! Like all rescues they do a LOT of unpaid and invisible work for local animals, so if you have even $5 it would be awesome if you could kick in!

Let's Go Riders!

Crime: Man steals bus with passengers on board. Canadian Crime: He still makes the scheduled stops to let passengers on and off. Canadian Crime Bonus: He denies boarding to one passenger because his bus pass had expired. globalnews.ca/news/1152251...

Time for standards to protect all health care workers and patients! Mask up! Stop the spread. #Covid theconversation.com/the-csas-rev...

Go, home team! 🟥🍁🟥

It is Time

I'm making all of my 3D Printing models Public Domain! I currently have 27 models on Maker World, including some very popular Halloween minis. makerworld.com/en/@AmandaRoos

I keep seeing friends who aren't thrilled that Word is newly enshittified. At the risk of sounding like one of Those Guys, there is a magnificent, full featured, entirely free alternative called Libre Office that works on all platforms. I've used it exclusively for over a decade.

Usually on the anniversary of my son's death I find a video game he would have liked, order takeout and play all day. But this year it'll be a marathon of the cheesiest vintage sci fi movies. Plus pizza and Black Adder. #missyoudeej #mentalhealth #suicideawareness #tellyourpeopleyoulovethem

The Alberta teacher strike that has affected more than 700,000 students isn’t just another labour dispute. It’s the latest front in a long campaign to undermine education — closely linked to the right-wing Project 2025 initiative to transform America. @ximenaka.bsky.social writes. #abpoli #uspoli

The Jays are on fire 🔥. Their 22 yo rookie pitcher has 10 strikeouts in only his 4th ever MLB start. They are up 11-0 over the evil empire after 4 innings. Vladdy with a grand slam. I'm bursting with joy! #bluejays #ALDS

@yankees.com Anybody know when the game starts. And is it after the Blue Jays Batting Practice finishes?

This kid is out of this world! #treyyesavage #bluejays #jaysyankees #aleastdivchampionship

Today, on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we pause to honour survivors, families, and communities impacted by residential schools. 🧡 Visit the resources listed on the last slide to learn more.

CONGRATULATIONS to @mychal3ts.bsky.social, the new host of READING RAINBOW. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 #ReadingRainbow #TheInvisibleParade #LeighBardugo #JohnPicacio #DayoftheDead #diademuertos #diadelosmuertos

@bearofoses.bsky.social Burble in action. (Not really, she mostly sleeps 🤣)

@bearofoses.bsky.social here's the latest iteration, not tested a triple yet but theoretically it should work, singles worked well on just a 5 gallon bucket.

NEW CANADA HERITAGE MINUTE JUST DROPPED #BLUEJAYS

Christian nationalists dream of taking over America. This movement is actually doing it.

This.

No updates/no sightings... but thank you to EVERYONE who's looked. We have one trap in the backyard ("smelly fish and water!") and one more is on the way, and my friend M is coming to sleep over for the next few days till I get back. 🥹 I have a good community and good friends I am very lucky